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Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
(Also on this point, it is important that the point of the Loop is not to sell the bonds to the public instead of Wall Street, which afaict is the more familiar public banking move.)
"[S]acred ... spaces are not properly entered
directly, but only after respectfully circling around them."
-Jale Nejdet Erzen
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Important clarification about @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s Loop proposal.
Public programs become part of the balance sheet architecture that sustains the public bank. That’s the loop.
The same thing (such as statewide public banking legislation) can produce a different outcome if the stakes and constituencies are reorganized/expanded in response to new political problems.
And yes in New York it won’t happen overnight (though CA is a different case!), but this is a long game.
New post at Wealth Economics, that I've been meaning write forever. I'd love to hear thoughts.
wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/where-asse...
@governorferguson.bsky.social is like “You’re all gonna suffer the same way the people in red states do. But vote for me again anyways.”
Hey Bob. It’s time to ditch your status quo austerity and neoliberal indoctrination and start embracing new and inventive ways fix things.
Or don’t run again.
Big news: The campaign calling on Citizens Bank to stop financing for-profit detention companies has graduated from "Oh, all twelve of you! Get a life!" to "Leftist mobs RIOTING!"
I authored this letter to fight for Seattle residents and their tax dollars. In addition to millions that would be directed away from our community, I'm concerned with the precedent this "cap" would set for Seattle. I'm grateful to my colleagues for signing on and hopeful for the path forward.
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let…
Many of us know quite a bit about wealth inequality—about WHO owns how much—but fewer of us have been taught to think about WHAT counts as wealth.
Fewer still have been encouraged to see that we can wage, and win, fights about what assets SHOULD count; this is an under-explored terrain of struggle.
